Archive for the ‘Trelowarren history’ Category
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The Sofa – Victoria’s Blog
Posted on by The Sofa Septimus: ( to Thomasina) We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again […]
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Victoria’s blog – Christmas at Sea
Posted on by Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson https://poets.org/poem/christmas-sea A poem at Christmas needs to have a good narrative drive and not be too full of itself as a poem. Epiphany is the time for the tragedy of TS Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi, but on Christmas Day I think Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, full […]
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The Great Stink – Victoria’s blog – November 2020
Posted on by “Gentility of speech is at an end—it stinks, and whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it and can count himself lucky if he lives to remember it”. Never, ever, underestimate the value of drains just because you’ve never properly looked down them. Civilisation is built on decent sanitation. It would be nice if […]
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Difficult Questions for 2020 – Victoria’s blog – Jan 2020
Posted on by In the 1960s a theoretical statistician, hence someone with theoretically no skin in the game, suggested that if a large % of an available population give an answer to a simple question, the answer they give, however unlikely it seems to another group, is probably correct. The available population in our garden is two. Should […]
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Water outside – Water inside – December blog by Victoria Vyvyan
Posted on by We’ve had a wet autumn. The rain has come from all of the cardinal points. It has drifted sideways in veils; it has poured down vertically in sheets; it has battered the windows so hard that some just gave up and blew out; it has come in gusts and flurries making the scaffolding groan like […]
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Keep the home fires burning – November blog by Victoria Vyvyan
Posted on by At Trelowarren we keep the home fires burning All that needs to be said about bonfires in the Pleasure Gardens at Trelowarren was said by C.C. Vyvyan in The Old Place. So in homage to Great Aunt Clara … Think Armada, think Napoleon; think Jubilee, Coronation, and Armistice; think Shadrach Misach and Abednego and the […]